yeah - you're right - I checked the German language versions, they are equally screwed up - I was assuming it was something like French (where "Nouvelle Zealande" sorts differently from "New Zealand") or English/German where "Deutch" sorts differently from "Germany") etc etc
yeah, confusing isn't it, I noticed that too - I suspect they've sorted the list into german-language order rather than english-language order - leaves "New Zealand" coming after "Nu..."
they're a business - they've figured out that lots of people tossed the useless modem and they've found a great way to squeeze money out of EX-customers (customers who've already decided they're scum because of their crap service and so they don't take any risk by reoffending)
it's an article about "software projects" not just nautilus... your question is about as silly as "why is nautilus mentioned first in an article about konqi?"
heh.... I bet it was Thynne and Moriarty (Gates/Balmer or is it the other way around...).... don't worry Bluebottle (Linus) will be around to save the day.... with bits of string and chewing gum
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yup, one of my favorites too - I reread it every few years - it's one of those books that's a joy to read and can be reread again and again. Personally I found the Amber series started off OK but got repetive and confusing over time ("who are all these characters again?"). Just before he Zelazny was working on a book "Donnerjack" with Jane Lindskold - she finished it after he died - if you liked Lord of Light you'll probably like this one - it's basicly VR/sumerian-celtic mythology done in a similar sort fo style to LOL
nope, never by choice - I've paid the microsoft tax a couple of times when buying laptops for linux - and wiped as much of it as possible as quickly as I could - but I've never walked into a store and bought a MS product.
The reason why it's relavent is because MS IS evil... at least from an anti-trust, donations-for-politicians-in-your-pocket sort of sense. And since we open-source coders are currently directly under attack from Uncle Bill's evile-empire (tm) it's important to both remind ourselves and the rest of the world just what MS's all about.
Besides have you read the RICO statutes... pretty soon MS will make those 3 little mistakes...:-)
As a designer of Rambus stuff ....
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I've designed a number of chips using RamBus's RDRAMs - from the very early days when their first chips came out (but I've never worked for them).
One thing that's interesting about the story is that it describes how a RamBus employee went to standards meetings and came back with ideas for things to patent - then the company patented them. What the article didn't point out was that each of these ideas were already in RamBus's designs (for example the low voltage swings were a staple of their basic idea etc etc). It's more a case of them being prompted by the meetings to cover their butts than outright stealing of other people's ideas.
Having said that they obviously didn't bother to patent this stuff - IMHO much of it is "obvious to one skilled in the art" - proved by the fact that it was being independantly invented in the standards meetings by others who are obviously skilled in the art and therefore should never have been accepted as a patent by the USPTO (like they care, or bother to check)
Back when the early powerbooks came out many of them had a few bad pixels - Apple claimed at the time that this was expected and there was a certain number of bad pixels that were tollerable before Apple would replace yuor screen.... one of the MacHack entries back then was a program that would 'increase' the number of 'bad' pixels to above that number so that you could get your screen fixed
there have been a lot of newspaper articles about the distribution grids here in CA recently - this was one of the facts that has been quoted widely - (along with the fact that often we have blackouts while there's still energy to spare - the local grid is not good at moving it north-south within CA)
there are 3 power grids in the continental US - basicly West, East and Texas (go figure) - TVA can't sell power to CA short of supplying an Energizer factory
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The 'phantom' sis900 is probably the integrated one in the north bridge - if the board you have doesn't have the full integrated ether it may still have a header you can attach one to (it looks like a PCI panel with the ether connector/transformer on it (like the one for the modem or socket7 USB). The Sis based boards come in all shapes and sizes - I've even seen ones with extra ether chips on them (plus the builtin ether header) presumably because the integrated driver for windows is broken
the SIS chips are cool ...and linux support too
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I've worked with a number of the highly integrated SiS chips - they all have graphics (2d and mediocre 3d - not a gamer's machine), ether, IDE, USB, sound, etc etc built in - the Linux drivers seem to be pretty good (with, sadly, the exception of MPEG playback even though the chips have support for motion comp) - there are both kernel and X drivers available - on the downside there's almost no published data from SiS for anyone wanting to work on the drivers.
There are a bunch of realy cheapo boards available - some only have 1 PCI slot (after all with almost everything builtin most people don't need slots at all) - you can build an OK box for $150 - many 'barebones' machines have these boards in them. Apart from that you don't see them here that much, I suspect the bulk of them are being sold in India and China.
In fact the only real problem I've had with them is that the Windows ether driver seems to blue screen all the time - like I care:-)
There's pretty obvious and more recent examples that are well documented - consider New Zealand which had no indiginous humans untill about 900ad... before that it had no mammals - well ok it had a species of bats, and sea mammals... but no grazing mammals or predators - as a result it had a whole bunch of bizarre birds that had evolved to fit niches usually held by mammals, many of them flightless.
the humans brought 2 mammals with them - rats and dogs - and also started to hunt the indiginous Moas (think ostrich/emu but twice as big) within about 800 years all the moa species were extinct - and in the process large parts of the ground cover had been burnt and, in places, the topsoil blown away (there are whole mountains covered in nothing but shingle still today) - the result was wide spread, lasting ecological damage - as a side effect of hunting these species to extintion.
We have this myth of indigenous cultures as having this close affinity with the land... and in fact the polynesian people who came to NZ had a well developed system for managing and protecting their fisheries that must have developed over the centuries surviving on small islands totally dependant on the sea. But when they came to NZ none of that applied to the land and the promptly did what europeans have done moving to new places (think buffalo, whales, etc) - slaughtered everything in sight assuming it was infinite and supply would last for ever - rather taking more of a controlled (farming like) approach to resource management. I suspect that sanity in resource management is sadly something you learn by screwing up badly - and as the Moa shows sometimes by the time you realise that it's a problem it's too late
Don't forget near-space blimps here on earth ...
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J P Aerospace are researching high altitude blimp platforms (20 miles up) for launch to LEO - basicly you blimp/balloon up to a floating launch platform, hop on a rocket and launch from there (thus avoiding the bulk of the atmosphere).
JP are and interesting crowd - basicly a small-scale amateur space program
but I couldn't find a version of Windows that ctually was an upgrade from my existing Linux system.... all the ones I check out seemed to be unreliable, expensive, insecure and the worst part, you won't believe this, they don't let you fix the bugs when you find them... a truely bizarre way to make system software....
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ummm... that was kind of my point..... and why I mentioned Keith:-)
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Audiophiles, in contrast, aren't content to waste their money in private or among other like-minded individuals. Oh no. They have a compulsive need to prosthelitize about their audiophilia.
Ah - you hit it on the head - it's not an addiction - it's a religion... you gotta have faith.... of course they're protected by the 1st ammendment.... be carefull - don't make fun of them or you'll get prosecuted for 'interfering with a religion' and end up in Canada like Keith Henson....
While I mostly agree I also beleive that anyone with $1M can build an RC5-64 cracker - I'm sure that the NSA would/will/has/could build one if they want to (a paper design I did a few years back is here) - roll on RC5-96
Nope - Keith was tried on 2 charges of "misdemenour terrorism" (for joking on the 'net about "Tom Cruise Missiles") and one of "interfering with a religion" (for exercising his 1st ammendment rights by picketing their compound in the desert)
Just you wait 'till they hook it all up together.... pretty soon they will notice you haven't bought toilet paper for a while and ALL the ads become ads for TP.... then you notice that you only see ads for the brands of TP that you DON'T buy....
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yeah - you're right - I checked the German language versions, they are equally screwed up - I was assuming it was something like French (where "Nouvelle Zealande" sorts differently from "New Zealand") or English/German where "Deutch" sorts differently from "Germany") etc etc
I saw the dual list structure, that was confusing too - NZ is in the 2nd part of the list - mis-sorted between "Niue" and "Oman"
yeah, confusing isn't it, I noticed that too - I suspect they've sorted the list into german-language order rather than english-language order - leaves "New Zealand" coming after "Nu..."
they're a business - they've figured out that lots of people tossed the useless modem and they've found a great way to squeeze money out of EX-customers (customers who've already decided they're scum because of their crap service and so they don't take any risk by reoffending)
it's an article about "software projects" not just nautilus ... your question is about as silly as "why is nautilus mentioned first in an article about konqi?"
heh .... I bet it was Thynne and Moriarty (Gates/Balmer or is it the other way around ...) .... don't worry Bluebottle (Linus) will be around to save the day .... with bits of string and chewing gum
yup, one of my favorites too - I reread it every few years - it's one of those books that's a joy to read and can be reread again and again. Personally I found the Amber series started off OK but got repetive and confusing over time ("who are all these characters again?"). Just before he Zelazny was working on a book "Donnerjack" with Jane Lindskold - she finished it after he died - if you liked Lord of Light you'll probably like this one - it's basicly VR/sumerian-celtic mythology done in a similar sort fo style to LOL
Yup that's the price of one of those ISS movie tickets (limo not included)
nope, never by choice - I've paid the microsoft tax a couple of times when buying laptops for linux - and wiped as much of it as possible as quickly as I could - but I've never walked into a store and bought a MS product.
The reason why it's relavent is because MS IS evil ... at least from an anti-trust, donations-for-politicians-in-your-pocket sort of sense. And since we open-source coders are currently directly under attack from Uncle Bill's evile-empire (tm) it's important to both remind ourselves and the rest of the world just what MS's all about.
Besides have you read the RICO statutes ... pretty soon MS will make those 3 little mistakes ... :-)
not D engines .... M engines ....
One thing that's interesting about the story is that it describes how a RamBus employee went to standards meetings and came back with ideas for things to patent - then the company patented them. What the article didn't point out was that each of these ideas were already in RamBus's designs (for example the low voltage swings were a staple of their basic idea etc etc). It's more a case of them being prompted by the meetings to cover their butts than outright stealing of other people's ideas.
Having said that they obviously didn't bother to patent this stuff - IMHO much of it is "obvious to one skilled in the art" - proved by the fact that it was being independantly invented in the standards meetings by others who are obviously skilled in the art and therefore should never have been accepted as a patent by the USPTO (like they care, or bother to check)
Back when the early powerbooks came out many of them had a few bad pixels - Apple claimed at the time that this was expected and there was a certain number of bad pixels that were tollerable before Apple would replace yuor screen .... one of the MacHack entries back then was a program that would 'increase' the number of 'bad' pixels to above that number so that you could get your screen fixed
there have been a lot of newspaper articles about the distribution grids here in CA recently - this was one of the facts that has been quoted widely - (along with the fact that often we have blackouts while there's still energy to spare - the local grid is not good at moving it north-south within CA)
there are 3 power grids in the continental US - basicly West, East and Texas (go figure) - TVA can't sell power to CA short of supplying an Energizer factory
The 'phantom' sis900 is probably the integrated one in the north bridge - if the board you have doesn't have the full integrated ether it may still have a header you can attach one to (it looks like a PCI panel with the ether connector/transformer on it (like the one for the modem or socket7 USB). The Sis based boards come in all shapes and sizes - I've even seen ones with extra ether chips on them (plus the builtin ether header) presumably because the integrated driver for windows is broken
There are a bunch of realy cheapo boards available - some only have 1 PCI slot (after all with almost everything builtin most people don't need slots at all) - you can build an OK box for $150 - many 'barebones' machines have these boards in them. Apart from that you don't see them here that much, I suspect the bulk of them are being sold in India and China.
In fact the only real problem I've had with them is that the Windows ether driver seems to blue screen all the time - like I care :-)
the humans brought 2 mammals with them - rats and dogs - and also started to hunt the indiginous Moas (think ostrich/emu but twice as big) within about 800 years all the moa species were extinct - and in the process large parts of the ground cover had been burnt and, in places, the topsoil blown away (there are whole mountains covered in nothing but shingle still today) - the result was wide spread, lasting ecological damage - as a side effect of hunting these species to extintion.
We have this myth of indigenous cultures as having this close affinity with the land ... and in fact the polynesian people who came to NZ had a well developed system for managing and protecting their fisheries that must have developed over the centuries surviving on small islands totally dependant on the sea. But when they came to NZ none of that applied to the land and the promptly did what europeans have done moving to new places (think buffalo, whales, etc) - slaughtered everything in sight assuming it was infinite and supply would last for ever - rather taking more of a controlled (farming like) approach to resource management. I suspect that sanity in resource management is sadly something you learn by screwing up badly - and as the Moa shows sometimes by the time you realise that it's a problem it's too late
JP are and interesting crowd - basicly a small-scale amateur space program
but I couldn't find a version of Windows that ctually was an upgrade from my existing Linux system .... all the ones I check out seemed to be unreliable, expensive, insecure and the worst part, you won't believe this, they don't let you fix the bugs when you find them ... a truely bizarre way to make system software ....
ummm ... that was kind of my point ..... and why I mentioned Keith :-)
Ah - you hit it on the head - it's not an addiction - it's a religion ... you gotta have faith .... of course they're protected by the 1st ammendment .... be carefull - don't make fun of them or you'll get prosecuted for 'interfering with a religion' and end up in Canada like Keith Henson ....
While I mostly agree I also beleive that anyone with $1M can build an RC5-64 cracker - I'm sure that the NSA would/will/has/could build one if they want to (a paper design I did a few years back is here) - roll on RC5-96
Nope - Keith was tried on 2 charges of "misdemenour terrorism" (for joking on the 'net about "Tom Cruise Missiles") and one of "interfering with a religion" (for exercising his 1st ammendment rights by picketing their compound in the desert)
Just you wait 'till they hook it all up together .... pretty soon they will notice you haven't bought toilet paper for a while and ALL the ads become ads for TP .... then you notice that you only see ads for the brands of TP that you DON'T buy ....
but for those of us that are long sighted putting one on the wall across the room could be very comfortable ...